My Collections of Original Indonesian Recipes...

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In this blog i dedicate to give you the best of Original Indonesian Recipes...

Indonesian food comes from many sources of ingredients and spices, from various kinds of chillies, ginger, shallot, turmeric to coconut milk. Combining those natural spicy ingredients provides you unique dishes from Indonesia, the islands of spices...

To All food lovers, I really encourage you to try the taste of Indonesian foods, most of them are spicy and have exotic tastes you've never experienced before, I'm serious...They're really worth trying... :)

Ayam Goreng Mbok Berek is Indonesian legendary Fried Chicken Franchise Restaurants. It's like the Indonesian version of Colonel Sanders (KFC). Mbok Berek started her business in Jogjakarta, one of the most exotic places in Indonesia. Her real name was "Nini Ronodikromo". Her friendly name as "Mbok Berek" began from one of her children that often cried loudly (tantrum). In Javanese language they called such cry as "Berek-Berek". So from time to time people around her began to call her "Mbok Berek". The name surely brought her fortune until today, because of its uniqueness and easiness to be pronounced.

Mbok Berek Fried Chicken is actually an evolved version of Ayam Goreng Kalasan (traditional jogjakarta fried chicken). The business campaign slogan of Mbok Berek is "Ayam Desa Masuk Kota" or in English "Countryside Chicken Entering Town".

Anyway let's go to kitchen now...

Ingredients:

8 eschalots chopped

3 cloves garlic chopped

4 candlenuts

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups unsweetened coconut water

2 teaspoons ground coriander

1 piece fresh galangal bruised -- (5 cm)

3 salam leaves - optional

1 whole fresh chicken cut into 10 serving pieces

with a cleaver or 1kg chicken pieces

2 cups oil for deep-frying

Fragrang Chilli Sambal (Sauce):

4 large red chillies chopped -- (4 to 6)

8 eschalots chopped

2 cloves garlic chopped

1 piece fresh galangal -- (1 cm)

1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped palm sugar

1 teaspoon dried shrimp paste

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

2 stems fresh lemon grass bottom 10cm only --

cut in half

bruised

2 salam leaves - optional

1/4 tamarind juice

Substitutes:

1 large red or brown onion instead of eschalots

replace candlenuts with 4 raw unsalted macadamia nuts or 8 cashews

replace coconut water with 1 cup water and 1 cup chicken stock if desired

Use soft brown sugar instead of palm sugar

How to:

Make the sambal by processing the chillies, eschalots, garlic, galangal, sugar, shrimp paste, and salt in a spice grinder.

3 comments:

I believe you that Indo food are so yummy. i dont know their names but it was really good...Glad to see an Indo recipe here, if i have those ingredients here, i will try to cook or prepare here since my family love spicy food.

Hi Author , I have been craving to eat Ayam Mbok Berek, which is Ny Umi used to be my friend when I still in Indonesia... unfortunately I move to Singapore than to USA so I lost contact with her... I ussualy visit her and she always treat me with all the specialty in her restaurant in Tebet I hope by sending this messege she remember me Mbak Didit friend of Usadaningsih (late) her causin, so Thanks a lot for sharing her recipe, I will try today and send u the result OK